Direct democracy and nonpartisan rep govt, for a species-mature governance

Direct democracy is a legacy from its 400 years in the Roman Republic. It comes to us in the Declaration Of Independence. DD/rep-govt was ruled a republican form of govt intrinsic to the Constitution by our highest courts during corruption-fighting in the Reform Era, 1898-1918. It needs upgrading to help us fight today's corruption. DD/rep-govt political junkies wanted.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Open Letter To Gary North

Subprime Crashes Into Criminal Monetary System

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"Central banking is perhaps the most brilliant scam ever perpetrated, and the U.S. Federal Reserve stands as the most successful of all central banks in history. The Fed is able to transfer wealth away from the people who earned it, and into the hands of the Federal Government and member banks, relentlessly, stealthily, year after year, and all the while maintaining the preposterous claim of social benefit in the form of "managing the economy." The method of this theft is sophisticated and disguised enough as to escape the attention of most, and when combined with propaganda, leads most people to the conclusion that we'd be in trouble without it. Yet I wish to show here that central banking can be well understood by most people for exactly what it is: ­ the fraudulent theft of trillions of dollars via the monopolization of money."

Some few of us are doing what we can to shift the national discussion from hand-wringing and clothes-clutching to the hard-biting, effective remedies and solutions available in the legal arena. As it was for Nixon, so it should be for Bush. Most Americans, of course, are lost in clothes-clutching, pie-in-the-sky daydreams of striking back with an electoral system that died of pathogenic electronic voting corruption in 2002, and sundry reform strategies that play to predator elitism's corruption machines and cannot possibly succeed.

While you're not one who is talking effective remedies and solutions, you are a blazing, citizen expert on central banking. We could use your expertise.

Little help, please.

Brief subprime/central-banking recap first, then the legal landscape, then your unfortunate parroting of predator elitism's pooh-poohing of legalities (which, by the way, has the appearance of being your self-serving contribution to holding together our massively failed political-economic system of fascist elites über alles -- how do you make your money?), then questions for you at the bottom.

Subprime Recap

As you've said, subprime is one of the all-time horrific banking errors. It was created almost single-handedly by greed-players within the global central banking system, with the major players being within or tied to our very own unconstitutional and federally illegal central bank, the Federal Reserve.

Subprime is now a global trainwreck. It has crashed into most of the national top-tier central banks -- ironically the trainwreck's creators -- with the damages running into probably-untold hundreds of billions of dollars. And it's clear that subprime is not a self-limiting crash.

Contrariwise, it seems to be an open-ended collision that will go on colliding with banking services, money, and credit -- for the ordinary-people victims of the subprime frauds -- for a very long time. As you quote lawyer Sean Olender (from his "Mortgage Meltdown: Interest Rate 'Freeze'--The Real Story Is Fraud", 09 December 2007, San Francisco Chronicle), "... The problem isn't just subprime loans. It is the entire mortgage market. As home prices fall, defaults will rise sharply -- period. ..."

You also quote Olender on the matter of greed-player lawyers jumping in to sue the banks for the investors who were clearly defrauded with bad paper. The lawyers will seek to force the banks to buy back the bad paper at face value, regardless of current near-worthlessness. "... The loans at issue dwarf the capital available at the largest U.S. banks combined, and investor lawsuits would ... cause even the largest U.S. banks to fail. ..." Investor lawsuits, legally proper and greed-driven, can only add dimensions and depth to the crisis.

Clearly, this ongoing subprime crash has all the earmarks of an uncontrollable, worldwide, Great Depression II.

The Legal Landscape

The unconstitutional passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, on the vehicle of inferior statute law, has always been an unconstitutional "anti-law regime".

"Since the statutes and official acts not based on the Constitution are null and void from inception, and in conflict with the real law, which is based on the Constitution, we may call this body of jurisprudence antilaw. ...

"Almost any effort to enforce such antilaw infringes on the civil rights of persons, and is therefore itself a crime, specifically, violation of 18 USC 241, Conspiracy Against Rights, or 242, Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law. ..."

The Federal Reserve's continuation has always involved felonies and felony conspiracies, including its usurous "fractional reserve banking", which is more properly "fractional lending ad infinitum". Whatever, the steadily increasing money supply caused by "fractional reserve banking", has ruined the dollar with its underhanded, under-the-table inflation. In the Fed's case, the felonies have been perpetrated minute-by-minute, every minute, since 1913. That's a lot of felonies.

Per the Constitution, the American people have a right to debt-free currency issued and valued by Congress.

Debt-based currency, issued and valued by a federal-statute-defined monopoly of private corporations (the Federal Reserve) violates 18 USC 241 -- felony conspiracy against citizen rights -- as well as both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution.

The "letter" of Constitutional law is violated by the Fed's conflict with Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 6 -- "The Congress shall have the power ... To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures".

The "spirit" of Constitutional law is violated by the Fed's conflict with the 1935 SCOTUS decision in Schechter Poultry, 295 US 495, which barred Congress from delegating any of the core powers assigned to it in the Constitution.

The American people pay compound interest on every dollar of the Fed's debt-based currency, which is created out of thin air in a variety of usurious ways and at many physical locations. Every act that creates any amount of that "fiat currency" marks a new felony under 18 USC 241. Every payment of compound interest on that "fiat currency" marks a new felony under 18 USC 241.

Every govt act under color of law that supports the Federal Reserve is another violation of 18 USC 241, another felony conspiracy against citizen rights. When Bush nominated Ben Bernanke to be Fed Chairman on 22 October 2005, he joined the chairman-replacement felony conspiracy, adding to his mantle as the Criminal President. When the Senate confirmed Bernanke by voice vote on 31 January 2006, it joined the felony conspiracy, adding to its mantle as the Criminal US Senate.

Per the Constitution, felony forfeits legislative immunity. "... They shall in all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest...". There is no absolute legislative immunity.

Between seeking Bernanke as Fed Chairman and his Senate confirmation, several govt hierarchies became principals or accessories-after-the-fact in the felony conspiracy.

That is, there are hundreds of felons-in-waiting and accessories-after-the-fact, in and out of govt, who need to go to prison for Federal-Reserve-related crimes -- right now, before the fascist thugs in central banking, the govt, and powerful corporations spring the North American Union and its dollar-dumping MEXCANUS Amero on us.

Getting to those criminal prosecutions, of course, will not be easy. But they are the effective remedies, I'm convinced, that the American people need to get to. And we do have options that can force the issue.

Predator Elitism's Vacuous ArgumentFor Non-Prosecution Of Its Own Criminals

In your otherwise-excellent article, you unfortunately parrot predator elitism's vacuous argument for not prosecuting those guilty of subprime fraud and Federal-Reserve-related crimes. You write --

"... There appears to have been fraud at every level. But this, it seems to my judicially untrained eye, is the very loophole the banks need. If everyone knew, as seems likely, and nobody blew the whistle, which is clear in retrospect, then these practices were common. If they were common, then they were not criminal. The government knew, and the government did nothing. Ditto for the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, and every other regulatory agency - Federal, state, and local.

"When a criminal conspiracy acts in a criminal fashion, it can be prosecuted. But when a criminal conspiracy has been licensed by the government, and has de facto run the government of every major nation for a century, it will be difficult to get a conviction. None dare call it criminal."

There's lots of logical fallacy squirming around in this vacuous argument. Briefly, the argument is -- if everyone knew ... and nobody hollered 'fraud' ... then its all unprosecutable 'common practices'.

This is a revolutionary view of law. It would give govt and corporate predators whatever the hell they want, whenever. Laws would never impose limits on predator behavior. Collusions would be automatic and mutually understood. "Everybody knew", therefore nothing criminal happened.

A whole world of legal concepts would be in the toilet. "Statute conspiracy", which took hundreds of years to develop into its modern form, and which underpins 18 USC 241 (felony conspiracy against rights) would never apply -- could never apply.

But here's the first hammer --everybody did not know. The subprime victims did not know that they were being victimized -- and most of the Federal Reserve victims still do not know that they are victims of the IRS personal income tax based on wages, which is the Fed's private money-pump, the criminal and unconstitutional mechanism for the redistribution of American wealth into the hands of central banking's private corporations. See especially, Aaron Russo's video, America: Freedom To Fascism".

Therefore, because the victims did not know, the criminal conspiracies -- subprime and Federal Reserve -- were and are acting in a criminal fashion.

That's just a touch of semi-rigorous logical examination of predator elitism's "everybody knew" gibberish. I could rant on through many other counter-examples, starting with the post-WW2 prosecutions of German, Italian, and Japanese war criminals -- cases in which all perps and all victims knew exactly what the 'common practices' were. Common practices did not preclude criminality. The common practices were criminal. Prosecutions happened. Convictions happened. Sentences were carried out.

There's no escape from criminality in the nonsense of 'common practices'. Well-- there is, historically proven, if you're a member-in-good-standing in a govt/corporate fascism such as Hitler Germany or the Bush-led 3-branch despotism.

I could rant on, but I think you're smart enough not to need such hammering.

We've got to get back to the the old notion, dura lex, sed lex -- the law is harsh, but it is the law. There are hundreds of felons-in-waiting and accessories-after-the-fact who need to go to federal prison very soon.

Questions For You

I'm nowhere near the expert you are on central banking. But it's clear to me that effective remedies and soltuions for our central banking abominations involve making it right with the law.

In my world, making central banking right with the law means repealing the Federal Reserve Act and generally obliterating central banking as we know it. I think you agree.

Yes, reasons for JFK's murder undoubtedly included his moves toward a debt-free currency and abolishing the Fed. But that's a story for another day.

My first order of business is to describe an institution that can replace the Federal Reserve, starting us with the issuance of debt-free currency.

Do you have any starting places to recommend? Can you recommend a biblio of thinkers and works dedicated to replacing the Fed? Have you engaged this topic yourself, and, if so, where can I read your discussion of it? Would you venture out now to engage the topic in new discussions?

Clearly, we can't go on with this national discussion of hand-wringing and clothes-clutching. We're running out of time. Americans will not continue to take the abuse and lies so typified by the byzantine subprime financial instruments, the consequent housing market crash, and the zero accountability for those who commit such abuses against the people. With the safety-valves into change blocked by the governing and corporate elites, and with many industries carpet-bombing the middle-class, the next stop could easily be bloody revolution.

Thanks for any consideration you can give -- toward a peaceful revolution.

Stephen Neitzkehttp://ddrevival.blogspot.com

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Update, Sat 12 Jan 2008 --Email Response from Gary North:

"My first order of business is to describe an institution that can replace the Federal Reserve, starting us with the issuance of debt-free currency."

There should be no such institution. There should be 2 laws:

1. No fractional reserve transactions: 100% reserve banking.

2. No legal tender laws.

Then get out of the way. The market will create the institution.

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Stephen's commentary: I was hoping for something a bit more chatty, a bit less cryptic. In any event, given the serious complexity of replacing the Fed and displacing its raw corruption powers, setting the laws that eliminate debt-based currency and then letting the market sort things out might seem to be an option.

There are certainly many Americans who will believe this to be an effective option. It is not. It plays to predator elitism's corruption machines, and it cannot possibly succeed.

Unfortunately, it only seems an option because of the propaganda that has propped up the fiction of free markets for the past three decades plus.

There's simply no such thing as free markets. Why would we let market forces -- a morass of demonstrated legal, financial, and trade corruptions -- sort out and create anything?

Mr. North's first law has obvious merit. Barring fractional reserve lending, the source of currency devaluation through inflated money supply, seems necessary no matter what else we do.

However, Mr. North's second law conflicts too broadly with the Constitution: "The Congress shall have the power ... To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, ...". That is a legal tender law of the highest order. It says that at least some of our money will be coined and valued by Congress, and, by implication, that such money will be accepted for payment of debt. Congressionally coined and valued money might be only the core of our eventual debt-free monetary system, but it is a Constitutional reality. For now, I'm convinced that the Constitution's authors were right about this matter and that we need such a core currency for the sake of our uniquely American federalism.

Untangling our criminal monetary system cannot be a one-dimensional fix trusted to the elites who have been responsible for its constant criminality for the past 95 years.

Mr. North's two laws do not repeal the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act of 1913 or the Fed's money-pump, the unconstitutional personal income tax on wages. Even if we enacted Mr. North's two laws, the unconstitutional fragments of the Fed and the personal income tax on wages would still be available to the predator elitists of our now-entrenched, fascist, govt/corporate despotism.

Many individuals in all three branches of our national fascist govt, along with many of their fascist corporate clients, need to be criminally prosecuted and convicted before we can have a healing process for our Constitution and our rule of law. Our governance of, by, and for the financial and governing elites has revolved too widely around the "anti-law regimes" of unconstitutional statute law -- such as the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and the personal income tax on wages (illegally redistributing wealth upward since the fraudulent non-ratification of the non-defining 16th Amendment, also in 1913). We as a nation owe too many debts to those who have been terribly wronged by the anti-law governance done by the elites. We cannot approach being the nation of our Declaration of Independence principles until those criminal prosecutions have cleared away the wrongs.

All of that must be a part of untangling our criminal monetary system. And until all of that is understood as the class warfare that it has been at least since 1913, we're doomed to live in realities that are twisted, distorted, and rejected by the cognative dissonance of our politically naive belief systems.

There are better, more comprehensive remedies to the starting place questions.

3 Comments:

ah,,, it is the money,honey.[again]Yes we must get ready because the halls are crumbling down. We need a major plan including Justice, but also how to pay the debt. We have many contracts to pay. Integrity? How will the US unite with the world, without Integrity? (includes your credit record)

About Me

Note, please. This is direct democracy turf. It's outside the status quo corruption box. It's about fully independent citizen lawmaking, aided by Online Citizen Institutions, melded to nonpartisan rep govt. It's a species-mature governance that centers on political equality, rights, and the rule of law. It's about finding the Bush presidential usurpation to be null and void from its inception on 20 Jan 2001, reversing all of its acts done under color of law, and following with criminal prosecutions for felony conspiracies against citizen rights in all 3 branches. It's about Constitutional renewal, state and national. It's about I&R cleanup and criminal prosecutions in the states for unconstitutional blocking of I&R petitions. Profile -- 60-something techie city dweller, prone to wilderness. Ex-military. Dual majors, Univ Calif Santa Barbara, philosophy & history. Former claims rep, 1st-level appeals officer, SSI rep, and field rep for Social Security Admin. Founder, Direct Democracy League, Jan 1994. Columnist, Populist Party of America.

Science Sites

Offshore Media

Special Reference--
Criminal Federal Reserve

"Open Letter To Gary North: Subprime Crashes Into Criminal Monetery System" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 30 December 2007. Brief subprime and central-banking recap first, then the Fed's and central banking's legal landscape, then a semi-rigorous examination and collapsing of North's unfortunate paraphrasing of central banking's pooh-poohing of subprime illegalities (everybody knew about the frauds, nobaody said anything about the frauds, making all the frauds "common practices", which are not criminal -- a new theory of law and arrogance writ large), then some questions for North at the end.

Aaron Russo's 2006 film, "America: Freedom to Fascism". Free-per-view at Google video, the film is also available on DVD from the AFTF site. Russo connects the unconstitutional and felonious "Federal Reserve Act of 1913" with the fraudulent 1913 ratification of the 16th Amendment and its unconstitutional "personal income tax". From that criminal tandem, he shows how the superrich of the central banking cabal are the true masters of our domestic and foreign policy-making. If Russo's film does not crank up your sense of urgency against the coming North American Union and its dollar-dumping "Amero", then you are probably useless to the American nation.

"Russo's 'Freedom To Fascism'" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 01 November 2006. This is a wide-ranging review of Russo's film. (It is a more rounded-out version of what was published on the Populist Party site as "Outing The Constitutional Criminals".) It argues that Russo's film is an invitation to examine the evidence, not emotion-triggering propaganda pointing people away from the evidence. The essay also examines some major supporting evidence only mentioned in the film and takes to task the money-power shill-trolls who spew lies to criticize the film.

"The Fed--Jekyll Island Monster" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 07 July 2006. Abolishing the unconstitutional and felonious Federal Reserve and its unconstitutional national debt is necessary to our rule of law. Abolishing the Federal Reserve system may be the only way to avert the financial collapse of the US.

Stephen A. Zarlenga's 2002 book, The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money -- The Story of Power. Available directly from the publisher, the American Monetary Institute, Valatie, NY. Nature and history of debt-based money and why we need to institute a debt-free money system. Widely acclaimed by serious students of monetary economics. Former U.S. Treasury official, Richard C. Cook, writes -- "Stephen Zarlenga’s book ... is one of the most important books published in the world in the past 200 years. Someday it will be recognized for the classic that it is .... reform along the lines Zarlenga recommends could transform the economy of the world into a system that would benefit everyone, not just the monetary plutocrats who preside over the globalistic cannibalism that runs amok today."

Special Reference--
Dual-Mode U.S. Politics

Michael Parenti's 2007 (eighth edition) book, Democracy For The Few, Wadsworth Publishing. Parenti critically assesses the dominant dual-mode U.S. politics paradigm -- a public and seemingly honorable facade of fictions fronting for private, behind-the-scenes, criminal corruptions. "By focusing on the relationship between economic power and political power, discussing actual government practices and policies, conspiracies, propaganda, fraud, secrecy and other ploys of government and politics, this book stands apart in its analysis of how U.S. Government works."

Special Reference--
Universal Health Care

"Universal Health Care--Myth and Truth" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 27 October 2007. Universal medical care insurance is not univeral medical care. It's a sop to corproate predators and the superrich from criminal politicians who want the superrich to use the Diebold Electoral Frauds to put them in high office. It's anohter predator elitism carpet-bombing of the middle and lower classes. And it's not just one-dimensionsal greed. Universal health care insurance is another smoke screen, covering the unconstitutional and illegal suppression of EDTA chelation therapy, a biochemical cleaning of the vascular system that is a preventative and curative therapy for atherosclerosis and most of its spinoff diseases -- such as cancer, heart attack, stroke, adult diabetes and on into a very long list. The suppression of EDTA chelation therapy likely could not exist in a universal health care system. The suppression of EDTA chelation allows the medical industry to gouge hundreds of billions of dollars annually out of the society. But beyond the greed-driven money-grubbing, there's horrific human cost. We lose over one million Americans each year to early and unnecessary deaths due to atherosclerosis. Most are not faceless. They're mothers, fathers, siblings, extended family, and friends. We desperately need universal health care.

"VA Medical--Reckless Endangerment Whims" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 13 September 2007. There's something very wrong at the Muskogee (Oklahoma) VA Medical Center (now re-named the Jack C. Montgomery VAMC). I went to their emergency room on 04 September 2007 with double pneumonia. In combination with my core conditions of insulin-dependent diabetes, heart problems, chronic renal failure, and chronic Reiter's syndrome (an inflammation, autoimmune, and bone-deterioration disease that also adversely affects many of my organs), the pneuomonia was a clear threat to my 60-something life. Needing hospital monitoring for any number of possible, near-future emergencies, I was instead given a shot, some antibiotics, some cough syrup, and then pushed out the door. They saved a lot of money by pushing me out the door. As if the reckless endangerment of my life were not enough, I later discovered that at least three doctors played parts in falsifying and fabricating records of my visit. The doctored records blur the evidence of my needing hospitalization, make the doctors look good, and make any complaint of mine look bad. Clearly, those doctors are deeply accomplished fabricators. A written complaint to the VA's "Office of the Medical Inspector" circled through the VA zero-acccountability system, ending with the Muskogee facility manager calling 16 November and giving me a thorough nazi stroking. It's way past time that we absorb the extensive infrastructure of the VA medical system into a universal health care system, ending the VA medical zero-accountability.

18 USC 3 -- Accessory After The Fact -- "Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact."

Gives the "null & void project" outline, describes the smash-mouth politics of the "Unity America" citizen action plan, and discusses some standalone Constitutional amendments that we need to get passed.
Bush is not a president. He was not elected in accord with the Constitution. He is a presidential usurper whose usurpation violates the rights of all Americans to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution. His usurpation is the product of a wide felony conspiracy, defined in and violating 18 USC 241. By constitutional principle, his "presidency" was null and void from inception, regardless of when any judge finds the usurpation to be legal fact.
Every Bush action taken under color of law since 20 January 2001 is null and void -- and is an anti-law regime that has generated new felonies every time the individual anti-law regime has been applied. If we apply ourselves, it will take a decade or longer to unravel the web of treasonous felonies.
Nothing new under the sun. In the 60s BCE, Pompey ripped the anti-republican constitution and laws of the usurper-dictator Sulla out of Rome's legal fabric, returning Rome to the great republic that it had been for nearly 400 years.

Unorganized, we the sovereign people are nothing. Organized regionally and nationally in citizen action groups outside the political parties, the NGOs, the anti-war protests, and the flash mobs, we are all-powerful. We can operate citizen action plans such as "Unity America", adding a "jury nullification" project that will overturn the elitist judges' anti-Constitutional intentions.
Saul Alinski, hugely successful organizer of the left, 1940s to 1970s, taught his crews to "never do anything for anyone who can do it themselves--never", to "see the world as it is", to "fix on the world that you wnat to have", and to organize. We need to relearn those Alinski rules.

We should not trust a national Article 5 constitutional convention, no matter who calls it. Article 5 gives Congress an ace in the hole: the choice of ratifying any amendment in either the state legislatures or the special ratifying conventions.
Recent generations of predator elitists have been actively working toward superrich ownership of the state legislatures. "Soft money", with no limit and no accounting, floods perqs and the reelection campaigns at the state level. Ownership of the state legislatures by the superrich is obvious.
Hamilton's Article 5 is a trap. In this political culture of lying, where bribery money is SCOTUS-sanctified free speech, it will be a simple matter for the superrich to find sufficient sycophants among the convention's elected delegates. With the fawning parasites of the superrich crafting the convention's proposed provisions, and the superrich-owned state legislators voting ratification of the convention's proposals, citizen rights will be further limited and opportunities for predator greed greatly expanded.
I've shifted from advocating a 2nd NCC (national constitutional convention) based on Article 5 to advocating standalone constitutional amendments campaigned individually.
We can count on our amendments being willingly done by the politicians in Congress after they've gained THE FEAR from the continually escallating, smash-mouth politics of the "Unity America" citizen action plan -- or anything similar.

Another Motive For
Corporate Globalization

Two looks at a nasty surprise coming for Americans. In a parallel to Katrina's mauling of New Orleans, the natural disaster surprises have been secreted away from us by American govt.
Two active supervolcanoes in the western US -- the largest at Yellowstone, the other at Long Valley, just SE of Yosemite Nat'l Park in California -- are past-due on their supereruption cycles. In keeping with Bush junk science and fascism, data is being intentionally fragmented and/or hidden. The public is not being given anywhere near the complete picture for either of those natural monsters.
Geologic history shows that a minimal explosive supereruption is hundreds or thousands of times greater than St. Helens in 1980. Either of the supervolcanoes is capable of such a supereruption. The immediate kill-zone would be a radius of about 600 miles. Unprepared, tens of millions will die, just in the 600-mile radius. The western US will be largely destroyed. The midwest breadbasket will be largely buried in volcanic glass. Global volcanic winter will last 5 to 10 years, killing much of the biosphere. The event will seriously alter economics and politics around the world.
In apparent preparation, many US corporations have moved their production facilities offshore. In apparent preparation, the collusion of corporate fascism and US govt fascism is quietly birthing -- behind the busy political fictions that misdirect the American people -- the North American Union and its dollar-dumping Amero.

Lays out the growth of American fascism, from Rockefeller's Standard Oil, to the Gilded Age butcheries of ordinary people, to the German war-machine rebuild in the Interwar Period, to participation in and war profiteering from the Nazi slave-labor camps, to Nixon Era corporate laissez faire, to Reagan Era super laissez fair and voodoo economics, to Bush Era nation-crushing laissez faire and super-voodoo economics.
Compilation of twenty-six categories of Bush-Cheney fascist practices:
"No waffling. As with German and Italian fascism in the early 20th Century, the Bush-Cheney Usurpation is pure fascism. It demonstrates a strong-man leader, extreme secrecy, controlled media, fraudulent elections, judicial rulings clearly violating the Constitution, negation of the rule of law by all three branches of government, obstruction of justice for political and corporate leaders, the making of ex post facto law to immunize political and corporate leaders from past crimes, redefinition of established law for corruption and ideological purposes, redefinition of commonly understood language terms to avoid legal retribution (e.g., 'torture' to mean only treatment resulting in severe organ damage or death, and 'terrorist surveillance' to mean the interception of any communication or bank activity done by US citizens), the making of unconstitutional law to limit rights, suppression of Constitutional rights for profits and power, misuse of policy and law for unstated intentions, cronyism and corruption, sham national security obsessions, warmaking for profits and power, supremacy of the military, sham nationalism for the masses while leadership creates policy to benefit the transnational and stateless superrich, hard science made politically relative, anti-intellectualism outside the political and corporate elites, suppression of critical thinking in public education, intermixing of government and religion, enemies and scapegoats obsessions, destruction of undesirable minority population and cultural centers (e.g., Warsaw ghetto and New Orleans), male chauvinism and suppression of women's rights, and corporation protection extremes including lassez faire economic policy and suppression of labor's rights and power."
The essay briefly describes how we can get back our lost constitutional republic.

For over a hundred years, govts in the I&R states have unconstitutionally and arbitrarily delayed, altered, and/or rejected citizen-proposed law offensive to money-power. This gauntlet, to which every citizen-proposed I&R petition is subjected, is based on unconstitutional anti-law regimes passed by the legislatures and signed by the Governors as if they were proper statute law. The anti-law regimes include "separation of powers" unconstitutionalities, in which executive branch officials perform legislative branch functions, and the horrendously unconstitutional "binding judicial review of proposed law". No American constitution defines the judicial power to include binding review of proposed law. Judges would be quickly impeached and removed if they tried it on legislature-proposed law. For over a hundred years, the leadership of both major political parties have perpetrated state and federal felonies against every I&R petition processed by state govt. After the criminalities come the bad press for all citizen lawmaking. First the corruptions, then the lies. The clean-up is do-able.
Our constitutional renewals need to eliminate political parties from all govt matters at both national and state levels, following Nebraska's 1934 still-successful nonpartisan unicameral legislature. Nonpartisan rep govt, with fully independent citizen lawmaking, buttressed by online citizen institutions, is the species-mature governance that will auto-center on the social norms underpinning our Constitution -- political equality, rights, and the rule of law.

It's our best comparison-contrast of truth and the American situation. I hope the author will continue to develop and edit it over what little time we have remaining for dissent.

Remedies Essays

"Judicial Independence: Zero Accountability" -- Neitzke, 16 August 2006. Judicial independence was originally intended to keep the elites safe from commoners, not to keep judges safe from politicians. The zero accountability of judges led to SCOTUS crushing social justice in the Gilded Age, again in the 1920s and 1930s, and again in today's Bush-Cheney Usurpation. We need to end their aiding the predator elites with impunity. Bush v. Gore, 12 Dec 2000, was an unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous SCOTUS ruling that aided only the predator elites. We need to make the federal bench accountable to the sovereign people -- with nonpartisan elections and the recall by citizens in each Court's jurisdiction. Note -- This post marks my personal change from advocating a 2nd Nat'l Constitutional Convention to advocating standalone Constitutional amendments for our renewal.

"Extraordinary Rights Of Americans" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 24 May 2006. (Argues that fundamental human and political rights are humanly absolute, not politically relativistic, and that once established, such rights live forever. Further, that the "extraordinary rights of Americans", as distinct from the "traditional rights of Englishmen", were given to us in the Declaration of Independence, hallowed on the Revolution's battlefieds, and betrayed by the predator elitists who authored the Constitution.)

"Direct Democracy Rights" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 19 June 2006. (Argues that the January 1863 Emancipation and its murderous KKK aftermath is one of the great historical justifications for why the Constitution should have had DD/rep-govt from its beginnings -- and for why we should create it now.)

"Forward, Direct Democracy, 2.0" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 27 June 2006. Last updated 27 September 2006. (Basic facts and developmental history concerning DD. Comparisons of the founding principles and implied promises of the Declaration of Independence with the realities of the pure rep govt political dynamic from the Constitution -- which buries the DOI's implied promises out of reach of the ordinary people, for the benefit of predator elitist profits and power. The sidebar essay below, "Executive Summary of Direct Democracy, 2.0", appears in this post so that readers can make comments on the sidebar text, if they wish.)

"The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World" -- Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law, 27 June 2006. (Report based on year-long study concludes "that all three of the nationâs most commonly purchased electronic voting systems are vulnerable to software attacks that could threaten the integrity of a state or national election".)

"Group identifies new flaws in Diebold e-voting machines", The Raw Story, 31 July 2006. (Article, Diebold Hack-O-Matic II. Describes newly-discovered toggle switch inside the latest, no-paper-trail Diebold TS machines. Allows the hacker-operator to load different operating systems from different sources. The OS in the machine's EPROM is the certified software that can pass any test. Toggle the switch to load an uncertified and easily-hacked OS from FLASH. Will produce whatever vote count the hacker wants. Diebold has retro-fitted most of these machines with modems, so that the hacker can work by telephone. Switching back to the EPROM leaves no trace of what happened, but it does leave the hacked-in votes.